Closing the Cold Case of Robin Lawrence
A gifted artist is murdered in her home. Her toddler is left at the crime scene to fend for herself. "48 Hours" correspondent Anne-Marie Green reports.
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Man confesses to cold case murder: "A serial killer who's only killed once"
Stephan Smerk, a married father in Niskayuna, New York, turns himself in for the cold case murder of artist and mother Robin Lawrence in Springfield, Virginia.
Family of murdered photographer wonders if his killer acted alone
Joe Shymanski, a, well-known Washington D.C. photographer, was murdered and dismembered in 2023. His ex-wife's former boyfriend, Brandon Holbrook, was convicted in the case. Shymanski's family still wonders if anyone else was involved.
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In reporting on the case of Joe Shymanski, a Washington, D.C., photographer murdered in 2023, "48 Hours"' Nikki Battiste says the story took her into unfamiliar territory: confronting someone she grew up with.
A wife is accused of her husband's murder. Can she clear her name?
Alison Davis says she woke up to find her husband, Kevin Davis, face down in a pool of blood inside their New Haven, Indiana, home. She says he fell down the stairs. But after an autopsy report, police came to a different conclusion.
Was a police search for a murder weapon cut short by a guard dog's growl?
After Kevin Davis was found dying at the foot of the stairs in his Indiana home, police initially believed it was an accident. They did not search the room where a pit bull mix was secured.
Security video helps lead to a masked killer who tried to hide the crime
Dr. Steven Milner, a well-respected Oregon veterinarian, was accused of stalking and disguising himself before murdering Kenny Fandrich — the husband of a former employee. Security cameras played a key role in how detectives pieced the case together.
Police race to save murder evidence from being turned into scrap metal
Police say the driver of the minivan — who wore a mask, glasses and a hard hat — sprayed security cameras with blue paint to hide his crime inside an Oregon parking garage.